That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy.
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GARY VAYNERCHUK It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love t...
GARY VAYNERCHUK I love people, and the hustle.
GARY VAYNERCHUK When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. M...
GARY VAYNERCHUK I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers eve...
GARY VAYNERCHUK Stop doing things that waste time. Don't replace time with your family or things that you need t...
GARY VAYNERCHUK The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culi...
GARY VAYNERCHUK My dad passed on asthma to me. It's kind of ironic because he outgrew it at 13.
GARY VALENTINE The key in controlling my asthma is pretty simple: I have a good professional diagnosis, and I follo...
GARY VALENTINE Asthma doesn't affect me, even though I have it. It can seem like it wants to act up a little if...
GARY VALENTINE I love everything about playing for Newcastle, the club, the fans and the city.
GARY SPEED I have won 85 caps and have had a great career with Wales and have enjoyed every minute of it.
GARY SPEED Everyone tells me to play as long as you can. Sometimes, it goes in one ear and out the other.
GARY SPEED If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have reti...
GARY SPEED A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have be...
GARY SPEED If you've got aspirations to be a manager or coach, obviously coaching your country would be a g...
GARY SPEED You've got to believe you can get a result from the game.
GARY SPEED I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the mo...
GARY SPEED Everyone I know is fervently proud to be Welsh but you try not to be preachy about it. It's diff...
GARY SPEED Goal scoring is a recurring theme. If you aren't scoring then you aren't going to win games....
GARY SPEED I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.
GARY SINISE I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.
GARY SINISE I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
GARY SINISE But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.
GARY SINISE If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last t...
GARY SINISE I'm thrilled I can make a living doing something I enjoy.
GARY SINISE I can honestly say that I've done everything I've wanted to do, always. Not without difficul...
GARY SINISE The chance to play a romantic character who kisses somebody onscreen was one of the elements that ma...
GARY SINISE I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm ...
GARY SINISE